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Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism: Louis XIV and the Port-Royal Nuns
Daniella Kostroun
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hardcover. Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism examines the role of the nuns of Port-Royal-des-Champs in the Jansenist struggle against absolutism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 520.
Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism chronicles seventy years of Jansenist conflict and its complex intersection with power struggles between gallican bishops, Parlementaires, the Crown and the Pope. Daniella Kostroun focuses on the nuns of Port-Royal-des-Champs, whose community was disbanded by Louis XIV in 1709 as a threat to the state. Paradoxically, it was the nuns' adherence to their strict religious rule and the ideal of pious, innocent and politically disinterested behavior that allowed them to challenge absolutism effectively. Adopting methods from cultural studies, feminism and the Cambridge School of political thought, Kostroun examines how these nuns placed gender at the heart ... Read more
Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism chronicles seventy years of Jansenist conflict and its complex intersection with power struggles between gallican bishops, Parlementaires, the Crown and the Pope. Daniella Kostroun focuses on the nuns of Port-Royal-des-Champs, whose community was disbanded by Louis XIV in 1709 as a threat to the state. Paradoxically, it was the nuns' adherence to their strict religious rule and the ideal of pious, innocent and politically disinterested behavior that allowed them to challenge absolutism effectively. Adopting methods from cultural studies, feminism and the Cambridge School of political thought, Kostroun examines how these nuns placed gender at the heart ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107000452
SKU
V9781107000452
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About Daniella Kostroun
Daniella Kostroun is currently Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is the co-editor (with Lisa Vollendorf) of Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World, 1600–1800 and the author of 'A Formula for Disobedience: Jansenism, Gender and the Feminist Paradox', which appeared in the Journal of Modern History and won the 2004 Chester Penn Higby Prize from the ... Read more
Reviews for Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism: Louis XIV and the Port-Royal Nuns
"While of interest to scholars, the book's clear explanation of basic tenets and figures in Jansenism makes the work accessible to nonspecialists. Recommended." -Choice "...those who follow lines of power and social influence will find much here to digest." -William Beik, The Journal of Modern History